George Takei

For a film largely about speech, the provocatively titled documentary "Do I Sound Gay?" has little of great significance to say. Writer-director-star David Thorpe attempts to probe the whys and wherefores of what he calls the stereotypical "gay male voice," but he ends up crafting a naval-gazing self-portrait that's unflattering, inconclusive and, at times, a bit specious.

Cameras follow 40-ish journalist Thorpe on his journey to change what he considers his "gay" speech pattern to sound more traditionally masculine and to boost his shaky self-esteem. But his visits with speech pathologists result in a muddled kind of Band-Aid therapy instead of a...

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